CDA Bars & Rails
Cold Drawn - a Process Not a Material Cold Roll or Cold Drawn bar is often requested from a supplier as if the term indicated a grade of steel. Those terms refer to production methods not chemistry or grade. I…
When Hot Rolled Steel? – When Cold Finished Steel?
Whoever said; "Cuts like butter, or, Machines like butter", may not have meant that was a good thing. Visualize butter; not cryogenic butter. The thing is, you need a little hardness (read as strength) if you are expecting decent cutting…
Who’s Wallet Comes Out
ALLOWANCE TO FINISH Between the end-user, machine shop, and/or service center, when discussing round steel shafts, there are issues with "allowance to finish", and even with the method of grinding that will be utilized to produce the finished polished shafts…